From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Wessle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: indent-tab-mode Date: 02 Oct 2006 05:25:09 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: References: <87psddujj8.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159731655 14783 80.91.229.2 (1 Oct 2006 19:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 01 21:40:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GU7B1-0003Qo-Ic for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GU7B1-000177-5f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:40:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.72.61 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 76 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1159730655 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 4667 203.134.67.67:2125 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142131 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37750 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Gary Wessle writes: > > Hi Gary, > > > my indent-tab-mode is on but when I am writing in sh mode > > > > #!/bin/sh > > if [ ... ] > > then > > > > the "then" is not indented automatically. how can I fix this? > > `indent-tab-mode' has nothing to do with how the indention of certain > programming language constructs looks like. If it's non-nil, indentation > uses tabs, if it's nil it uses spaces. > > ,----[ C-h v indent-tabs-mode RET ] > | indent-tabs-mode is a variable defined in `C source code'. > | > | [...] > | > | Documentation: > | *Indentation can insert tabs if this is non-nil. > | Setting this variable automatically makes it local to the current buffer. > `---- > > I think it's quite common not to indent `then': > > ,---- > | if [...] > | then > | do-this > | do-that > | done > `---- > > Another common style is: > > ,---- > | if [...]; then > | do-this > | do-that > | done > `---- > > Bye, > Tassilo then how can I indent-while-typing this code #!/bin/sh # # if not vehicle name is given # i.e. -z $1 is defined and it is NULL # # if no command line arg if [ -z $1 ] then rental="*** Unknown vehicle ***" elif [ -n $1 ] then # otherwise make first arg as rental rental=$1 fi case $rental in "car") echo "For $rental Rs.20 per k/m";; "van") echo "For $rental Rs.10 per k/m";; "jeep") ehco "For $rental Rs.5 per k/m";; "bicycle") echo "For $rental 20 paisa per k/m";; *) echo "Sorry, I can not get a $rental for you";; esac